I am building a groupplot using extikzpicture to externalize the graphics so that I can later just include them when I submit the paper for publication. I would like to reduce the size of the final ...

I would like to \refer to a pgf legend label in the caption of a figure (to explain symbols). I create my figures with externalization. Without the hyperref package, everything works fine. But as soon ...

I create large tizk-pictures which require me to use the externalize library due to memory issues. I define these pictures in a secondary file figures.tex which I can compile to receive the pfds of ...

I'm using pgfplots with the externalize feature, which creates external pdfs for all my plots.
But there seems to be a strange interaction with pdfpages when externalize is used.
The pdf I'm including ...

I've used tikz to build all the charts in a manuscript I'm preparing for submission to a journal. As a last step prior to submission, I wanted to take all the tikz code out and just \includegraphics ...

I like the functionality of TeXstudio to show me errors concerning my latex-code in the Log-window.
If I use pgfplots and externalize all externalized pictures are compiled in a separate call. So I ...

I tried to use the externalize library. It worked fine when all my files where located in the same folder. Usually I am using a subfolder as build folder, where all generated files should be stored. ...

I have some plots created with TikZ and pgfplots. In the captions, I use \ref{...} with plot labels in order to get the marker printed there; a neat feature indeed.
Now, when submitting to arXiv one ...

I have a large presentation with over 200 figures (mainly created through stepping through each image). I'm using the external library to cache the results to great effect. Each figure is cached in ...

Enabled caching options for minted and tikz lead to unexpected and inefficient caching. For every tikz figure that is externalized, all minted code blocks of the main document are cached within the ...

I have TeXStudio with portable Miktex 2.9.5105 on Windows 8.1. I'd like to use tikzexternalize and my MWE is as follows:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{pgfplots}
% \usepgfplotslibrary{external}
...

I have a main.texfile that includes a bunch of chapterX.tex files where X is the chapter number. The chapter files include files with tikz code.
In a package included by the main file I set a prefix ...

I'd like to plot some measured values with TikZ, but despite "calling" LuaLaTeX I get the error message that TeX's main memory is exceeded. I can compile the plots under LuaLaTeX but it doesn't work ...

For my thesis I have a lot of tikzplots exported from matlab using the matlab2tikz library.
I want to use the tikzscale-Package together with externalization of the plots to save compiling time. Using ...

I am using Tikz externalize for the figures in a manuscript. The original files containing the Tikz/pgfplots code have been deleted (but will be regenerated in several hours when my simulations finish ...

I am attempting to implement \tikzexternalize using a MWE. I was able to successfully compile the MWE on a LinuxMint install with the same configuration.
On a Win7 installation I am unable to compile ...

Based on a datafile (XYZ.csv) I want to have a contour plot within my .tex file.
I'm using lualatex for compilation.
The main issue is the externalization of the gnuplot contour plot in combination ...

I want to draw a simple figure of a boat in LaTex, does anyone know a good way to do that? Is TikZ the best package to use for this? I want it to look similar to the boat in the picture below, which I ...

Yet another Tex Capacity exceeded error.
I am generating a matlab scatter plot which without modification resulted in a 64.5 MB printed eps file. Using that plot directly in matlab2tikz resulted in a ...